Billy Graham’s advice to a grieving mother after her abortion

CHARLOTTE, October 12, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham is no longer able to hold the massive rallies that once stirred the nation’s soul. But the famed evangelist, now 97 years old and suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, still finds a way to reach out to the nation with the issues dearest to him through his syndicated newspaper column, “My Answer.”

On Wednesday, he dedicated his column to comforting a grieving mother after she had an abortion.

A post-abortive mother writes that, while it’s possible that “some women can go through an abortion and never feel guilty...I feel terrible over what I did.”

“Every time I drive by a school playground I’m almost consumed with grief,” she wrote. “Will I ever get over this?”

Although he said that what his writer did was morally wrong, Rev. Graham reassured her that God “has not rejected you or abandoned you. He loves you, just as He loved the child that was growing in your womb (and is now, I am confident, safely in His presence).”

He encouraged the grieving mother to “accept God’s gift of forgiveness today by turning to Christ and by faith inviting Him to come into your life,” then “ask Him to help you reach out to others whose hearts and minds have been scarred, as yours has been.”

However, grief over a past abortion is not the only possible reaction Rev. Graham has encountered.

“Tragically, however, sometimes a far different consequence takes place: spiritual and emotional insensitivity to what happened,” he warned.